Meat-curing device.



B. HILLERi MEAT CURING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 29, 1913.

1,108,755. Patented Aug. 25, 1914,

2 SHEETS-SEER B. KILLER.

MEAT CURING DEVICE.

APPLICATION TILED SEPT. 29, 1913.

1 108 755. I Patented Aug. 25, 191i 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

mm my Hlllllllllhlllllll BALTHASER HILLER, or mInsoN, WISCONSIN.

MEAT-GURING n-nvrcn.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatented Aug. 25, 31914.

Application filed September 29, 1913. Serial No. 792,378.

To all whom it may concern:

Beat-known that I, BALTHASER HILLER:

citizen of the United States, residing at Hudson, in the county of St.Croix and State of Visconsin, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Meat-Curing Devices, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to an improvement in meat-curing devices, and theobject is to provide a machine for introducing the salt into the meat.

The invention consists of certain novel features of construction andcombinations of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described andpointed out in the claims.-

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a topplan view; Fig. 2 is alongitudinal vertical sectional view; Fig. 3 is a view in sideelevation; and Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view.

A represents the frame of the machine, which is provided with a shaft 1carrying gear wheels or pinions 2, 2. The sliding table 3 is mountedupon the frame, and is provided with two rack bars 4, 4, adapted to meshwith the teeth of the pinions 2, 2. A screw threaded shaft 4 is mountedupon the frame A, and has a pinion 5 connected thereto, which mesheswith the gear wheel 6 mounted on the frame A. A crank handle 7 isconnected to the gear wheel for rotating the same for causing the shaft4' to be rotated. A clutch 8 is connected to the table A, and engagesthe screw threads of the shaft 4, whereby the table is caused to movelengthwise of the frame upon the rotation of the gear wheel 6. A tube 9-is mounted upon the frame, and extends above the table 3. This tube isprovided with a hopper 10, in which salt or other curing medium isintroduced to be forced through-the tube or casing 9. J ournaled in thetube is a screw conveyer shaft 11. The shaft 11 extends be yond bothends of the tube, and is journaled therein in a ball bearing 12connected to the tube at its forward end. A pinion 13 is mounted uponthe shaft 11 and meshes with the gear wheel 6, whereby the shaft 11receives a rotary movement. A meat holder 14 is connected to the table,whereby meat such as ham or the like can be fastened rigidly to themovable table.

Then the meat is to be treated, crank 7 is turned, causing the table 3to be moved toward the hopper 10 or toward the forward end of themachine. This causes the tube to be forced into the meat, and afterthetube has been forced into the meat a sufficient distance, the crankis turned in the opposite direction, causing the salt or curingmedium'to be conveyed from the hopper through the tube, and into themeat by the screw shaft 11. The table 3 is moving rearwardly, carryingthe meat vertically, and drawing it off from the tube 9, so that as themeat moves away from the tube, a supply of salt is left within the meat.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is: i

1. The combination with a'frame having a movable table, of a stationarytube, means for moving the table for causing the meat to be penetratedby the tube, means for holding the meat on the table so that it can bepene- 1 trated and means for introducing a curing substance into themeat through the tube. 2. The combination with a frame having a movabletable, of a stationary tube, means.

for moving the table for causing the meat to be penetrated by the tube,means for holding the meat on the table'so that it can be penetrated andmeans. actuated by said firstnamed means for introducing a curingsubstance into the meat as said firstnamed means is actuated for movingthe table in another direction to remove the meat from the tube.

.3. The combination with a frame having pinions mounted thereon, of amovable table provided with rack bars adapted to engage the pinions forsupporting the table, means on the table for holding the meat so that itmay be penetrated, a stationary tube through which the curing substanceis introduced into the meat, means engaging an end of the table forcausing the table to be moved for forcing the tube into the meat, andmeans actuated by said last-mentioned means for introducing the curingsubstance into the meat as the table is moved in another direction forremoving the meat from the tube.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in the presence of twowitnesses.

BALTHASER HILLER.

Witnesses JOHN DonwIN, LYNN H. ASHLEY.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0."

